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Following the motto "things have no meaning: they exist. And their
existence is their meaning," of the poet Alberto Caeiro, aka Fernando
Pessoa, the short films that form the basis of the work by this pair of
artists are defined as events, emergencies, sequences without narrative
or metaphysics, structured around the discreet but ineluctable origin of
small things.

JMG/PP succeed in creating a significant
artistic and intellectual journey achieving, as few others have in
contemporary art, high levels of philosophical sophistication and
reflection, through their films (in 16 and 35 mm), where their
materialistic vision is the result of an intertwining of the codes of
pataphysics, science and art. The artists' work invites us to think
about the world by looking at the absurd, the burlesque or the magic,
and recovering the primitive qualities of film’s earliest years.

As
is customary in the modus operandi of JMG/PP, some of the most recent
works in this exhibition were made during trips, in this
case to Catania, São Tomé and Principe. Therefore, there will also be
new works, produced by the Marino Marini Foundation and Ente Cassa di
Risparmio Contemporary Arts Observatory, as well as a sculpture,
"Spaghetti Tornado", produced with the support of the Brodbeck Foundation of Catania.

On
the occasion of the project a book will be produced, published by
Mousse Publishing, edited by Nuno Faria and Alberto Salvadori, supported
by the Foundations Marino Marini, Florence, Brodbeck Foundation,
Catania, and the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze Observatory of
Contemporary Arts.